Teachers

South Jersey towns have more teachers, police and other government employees as a percent of the total working population than municipalities in the north of the state. In towns like Woodbine, more than one third of the working residents has a local, state or federal government job.

Two priests with ties to South Jersey were among a list of Jesuit priests who faced “credible or established” accusations of sexual abuse of minors dating to 1950 released Monday by the Roman Catholic Jesuit province which serves much of the eastern United States.

Gov. Phil Murphy yesterday vetoed a bill that lawmakers claimed was going to save the state’s county colleges millions of dollars by switching their employees into a different state health-benefits group.